POL to BTC: Swap Polygon (POL) for Native Bitcoin, No KYC

POL is the coin that pays for every transaction on Polygon PoS, and it is also staked to secure that chain. People usually hold it because they use apps there: a DeFi position, a game, an NFT market. When that activity winds down, the leftover POL often sits idle in MetaMask or Rabby.

Moving it into Bitcoin is a common way to tidy up. BTC lives on a separate proof-of-work chain, it does not depend on any app ecosystem, and it can sit in a hardware wallet for years without any upkeep. That is the honest reason most people pick this direction.

The trade-off is that both coins float against the dollar. You are swapping one volatile asset for another, not parking value. If you want a steady dollar balance on the way out of Polygon, a stablecoin pair such as POL to USDT (TRC20) fits that goal better.

The deposit must be POL on the Polygon PoS network. POL also exists as a token on Ethereum mainnet, and both versions sit at the same kind of 0x address. A wallet set to Ethereum will happily send Ethereum-side POL to the deposit address, but the swap only watches Polygon PoS and cannot credit it.

Open MetaMask or Rabby and check the network selector before you press send. It should say Polygon, Polygon PoS or Polygon Mainnet. If your POL is on Ethereum, move it across to Polygon first.

POL replaced MATIC as the chain's coin, so older wallets, exports and bookmarks may still show the MATIC name. The asset you send here is the current POL on Polygon PoS. Polygon confirms the deposit in about a minute, and Escaneo de polígonos shows it the moment it is in a block.

On this pair the coin you swap is also the coin that pays gas. If you try to send your whole balance, MetaMask either rejects the transaction or shrinks the amount without asking, and the deposit no longer matches the figure in the box.

Enter a POL amount a bit below your full balance and keep the rest in the wallet. Polygon gas is small, so the reserve does not need to be large, just enough for one transfer. The leftover stays yours and can cover later moves on Polygon.

Then send exactly the amount the box shows, in a single transaction. Splitting it into two sends, or adding a few POL on top afterwards, makes the deposit harder to match. If you change your mind about the amount, start a new swap in the box rather than sending a second top-up to the old deposit address.

The two sides share nothing. The account-style 0x address from Polygon cannot hold Bitcoin, and a Bitcoin wallet has no idea what POL is. Keep the Polygon wallet open for the deposit and a Bitcoin wallet open for the receive address. Polygon is fast, so the slow part of this swap is usually the Bitcoin block that confirms your payout, which arrives roughly every ten minutes on average.

Bitcoin offers several address types, and the payout field accepts the common ones. Native SegWit addresses start with bc1q, Taproot addresses start with bc1p, wrapped SegWit starts with 3 and legacy starts with 1. Sparrow and Electrum create bc1 addresses by default, and a Ledger or Trezor shows one in its Bitcoin app.

Generate a fresh receive address in your wallet for this swap, copy it and paste it whole. A frequent slip on this pair is pasting the Polygon 0x address into the Bitcoin field, because it was the last thing copied. Another is using an address from a test wallet, which starts with tb1 and cannot receive real BTC.

POL is worth a small fraction of a bitcoin, so the payout can be a modest number of satoshis. Before you swap a small balance, think about whether moving that BTC again later will be worth the Bitcoin fee at that time.

The box quotes the BTC you receive after fees, based on aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets. The rate floats until your POL deposit confirms. Once it does, most swaps finish within minutes, and the BTC then waits for a Bitcoin block. The box also lists the smallest and largest POL amount this pair accepts.

GhostSwap is a no-KYC crypto exchange: no account, no email and no ID are asked for at any step. Your swap ID opens a status page, the deposit can be followed on PolygonScan and the payout on mempool.espacio.

If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. That should be your own Polygon PoS address in MetaMask or Rabby, not a deposit address at an exchange. If PolygonScan shows the deposit confirmed and the status page has stopped moving for a long time, write to support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID and the Polygon transaction hash.